I oo Power communicatedunto tl;e Office of C/;rifl for no duty aright in the hearing of him, nor ihall we learn the Truth as we ought. Hence it is that thofe who' deny his 'lJivine Perfon, though they pretend to attend unto him as t~e Teacher of the Church, do yet learn no Truth from hun, but embrace pernicious Errours in the fiead thereo£ Soit is with the J'ocinians, and all that follow them. For vv.hereas they fcarcely own any other Office of Chrifi but b1s Prophetical, looking on him as a man fent to teach the Mind of God, and to confirm his Doctrine by his Sufferings, whereon he was afterwards highly exalted of God,they learn nothing from him in adue manner. But this refpeet unto the Perfon ofChrifl: is that which will ingener:ate in us all thofe holy qualifications that are neceifary to enable us to know the Mind and Will of God. For hence do Re·veren.ce, Humility, Faith, Delight and Aifurancearife and :flow,without whofe continual exercife in vain fl1all men hope to learn the Will ofGod by the utmofi of their endeavours. And the want ofthefe things is the eaufe .of much of that life-– left, unfanchfied knowledge of the DoCtrine of the GofpeJ, which is amongfl: many. They learn not the Truth from Chrifl:, fo as to expect all teachings from his Divine Power. Hence they never come to know it either in its native\beauty drawing the foul into the Love and delight of what they krow, nor initstransforming .Ejficacy changingthemind into ' its own Image and likenefs. . Secondly; The fa me alfo is the fiate ofthings with refpefr unto·his King(yOfjiceand·Power. Butthisl have a:tlarge trea– ted on elfewhere, and that much unto the fame purpofe; namely in the Expojition of the thircf.verfe of thefirjiChapter of the Epi/ile unto the He-brews. Wherefore I ihall not here en~ large ,upon it. · · · Some feem to imagine, that theKing:J Power ofChri11, to– \VaFtfs the Church, coniifis only in external Ruleby the Gof- . . . . ~1
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